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Can confirm. Everyone hate to be in front of Tailor Swift. They all yell at her at one point.

Do you see people behind smartphones they're holding??

One of my family members paid something like 60 € to see Michael Jackson in the 90s. I still remember how back then, I thought "what an outrageous price tag."

I paid $25 to listen to Power Trip inside of someone's house.

It was one of the best and insane concerts I ever went to.

Metallica? I dunno, man. Maybe? Thing is, they, like Pink Floyd, have bucket-list status.

If you're gonna see them before you die, you're gonna pay for it. They know they're established, influential, and huge, and they can basically charge whatever they want.

Still, tho. I'd rather pay $30 to go see The Melvins and get my face melted off by Buzz and his two drummers.

I get 15-20 dollar tickets to concerts by bands I love fairly often, personally. It definitely depends a bit what kind of music you're in to, and probably what part of the country you live in, but cheap concerts are still out there.

Rebellious, anti-materialist, anti-machine

But I wouldn’t say we were unhappy on a personal level

now they're nostalgic about unhappiness 😂😡

Hey! I'm only 44!

And I had horrific, untreated anxiety and depression. Fun!

Sounds like they aged up.

Normal size is now skinny.

Could also be the enshittification of our food and culture including:

• Demonization of "fat" in foods leading to "fat free" foods being considered healthy when fats are actually good and necessary in the diet which leads to over consumption. (Don't get me started on the sugar and corn lobby)

• Hyper processed food removing micronutrients necessary for our brains to tell us we're full.

• Hyper processed foods being cheaper than whole foods

• Hyper processed foods being super addictive and unwilling at the same time.

• Food deserts making fast food and convenience store food the only easily accessible food in many areas.

• The lack of knowledge/skills with respect to home cooking and the deemphasis of "home economics" type knowledge in general...

• The lack of free time required to both cook and pass on those skills

• The growing understanding of how perfluorinated materials (PFA, PFOA, PTFE) fuck with our body chemistry including contributing to obesity. Don't get me started on how much companies like DuPont hid and lied about that stuff (and still are).

• Sedentary lifestyle...

• There's more but I hope you get the point

Basically what I'm saying is people were fat before "fat shaming" was looked down upon and late stage capitalism is frequently pulling the levers behind the curtain in many areas including this. You're also talking about "fixing" the outcome instead of preventing the cause which is several orders of magnitude more difficult. The US has abundant wealth but that hasnt specifically translated to better health outcomes. And do you really think middle schoolers have evolved to the point where they don't bully fat kids? There are very few obese people (both children and adults) out there who don't feel shitty about how they look regardless of who tells them they should feel that way.

The point of trying to inhibit fat shaming and bullying of all kinds is so people don't become reclusive and anti-social, pick up bad habits (such as drug addiction and eating disorders), kill themselves, decide to kill others in mass shootings and the like. Also, just don't be a cunt and make fun of people.

Ah, so fat shaming was the positive force for good all along

I beat my primary fat shamer so badly I caused a TBI. Spent a week in jail and some time out of school. Upon my return, no one had a negative thing to say about me, let alone my weight. Since I was no longer stressed worrying about bullies, I started doing more activities, making friends, etc. lost a bunch of weight. No diet change.

Beat the fuck out of bullies.

Thanks to you. You shouldn't have left.

Fuck you, get back over here. How dare you steal our happiness.

I don't blame them for breaking stuff. They just had one of those days.

... the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about.

I would say the big turning point would be around 2001.

Isn't that a major plot point of Matrix?